A huge red flag was erected on the hillside in front of the side, and Li Qi rode his horse slowly up the hillside, came to the front of the big banner, and then quietly watched the Khitan heavy cavalry that was regrouping below.

"Your Majesty, all preparations are complete!" The pro-general Shi Dang galloped over and reported loudly down the hillside.

"Okay, let the Khitans see it again this time!" Li Qi turned his head sideways, smiled at Lu Wenjin who was following behind him, and then slowly raised the long knife in his right hand......

When Li Qi's banner of the Son of Heaven appeared on the opposite hillside, Yelu Shilu's eyelids jumped violently, and he always felt that there would be some great danger waiting for him to pass. So he reined in his mount and stopped.

Although he couldn't figure out how the Tang army would fight, the battlefield instincts he had cultivated over the years still saved his life.

Squeak and squeak!

Behind the fence of the Tang military camp, six medium-sized counterweight trebuchets began to rotate, throwing fireballs towards the place where the Khitan heavy cavalry gathered. The lit grass balls fell to the ground and scattered, igniting the thatch underground.

Jeruza turned his gaze to the trebuchet of the Tang army with a very puzzled gaze, he did not think that this fire in the ground could cause damage to his heavy cavalry. It's really ridiculous to play such tricks, and in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and trickery of the Tang people will be crushed.

Jeruzacai believed in his own strength.

"Array, prepare to charge!" Jeruzacai shouted loudly, the camp fence hastily set up by the Tang army could not block the impact of the heavy cavalry at all, he did not believe that the Tang army could have troops comparable to his own!

Looking at the fireballs that Tang Jun was constantly throwing, the uneasiness in Yelu Shilu's heart became stronger and stronger.

The Tang people are not stupid, why do they do this when they know that setting fire in this situation will have no effect?

"Not good, the whole army retreats!" Jerusherus finally remembered something, and suddenly cried out loudly.

But it was too late.

Rumble! Rumble......

Mudble and rocks flew and huge fireballs emerged from the ground, enveloping the smoke and shooting straight into the sky.

After a series of loud explosions, even the Khitan cavalry that was lining up and even men and horses were thrown into the air, and then a large amount of dirt, gravel, and stumps mixed with flesh and blood fell from the sky, and a rain of blood fell on the cavalry that still survived on the ground.

All the Khitan soldiers were frightened by this sudden catastrophe, and most of the surviving Khitan soldiers jumped off their horses, prostrated to the ground, and prayed for forgiveness from the gods......

"Kill!" Yuan Ren shouted, and more than 10,000 Tang army armored horsemen turned out from behind the hillside and attacked suddenly!

Jeruza looked blankly at the hellish scene in front of him, who had been in the middle of the line and had been lucky enough to avoid a barrage of explosions from thousands of pounds of gunpowder. Due to the dense formation, more than 6,000 catties of gunpowder buried underground exerted a huge lethality, and more than half of the 3,000 Khitan iron horsemen were killed or injured in an instant.

The Tang army that rushed out from everywhere shouted to kill, and finally brought Jeruzakai to his senses.

"Bastards, let the horses all retreat!" He shouted at his subordinates who kept kowtowing to the ground, where did he dare to fight, turned the horse's head and ran first, and while running, he was still untying the vest on the horse.

Except for the hundreds of Khitan soldiers who were on the edge of the explosion point and fled with Jelu Zagai after they came to their senses, the vast majority of the surviving Khitan soldiers had become arrogant and had thrown away their weapons before the Tang army rushed over.

Behind him, he had heard the thunderous explosions from afar, and then he saw the whole army retreat with a frightened face.

The three thousand heavy armored cavalry were actually wiped out in an instant, and Yelu Deguang's first reaction when he heard the news was to retreat thirty miles first and leave this valley full of dangers. On the other side, after cleaning up the remaining Khitan elite heavy cavalry, Li Qi did not have the heart to pursue the victory, and ordered the army to camp in the Red Valley.

The valley on this side of the Huang River is not very suitable for large-scale cavalry operations.

This heavy loss made Yelu Deguang wake up from his anger, the Tang army is not a soft persimmon, if the 50,000 Khitan elites in his hands are exhausted, he will not be able to suppress the other grassland tribes at all. Even now, Xiao Wei, the king of Xibu, who had the closest relationship with the Khitan, hid back in his lair in Bei'an Prefecture (Chengde), saying that he was sick and refused to fight again.

Yelu Deguang doesn't care how many people from other tribes die in the war, the problem is that the 50,000 Khitan elites under his command are the cornerstone of the country, and he doesn't dare to risk this army.

For Li Qi, this battle has already been fought, and it is almost time to finish. The force that should be shown to the Khitans has been shown to the Khitans, and it has also achieved some results. At least now, the Khitans no longer have their original arrogance, and they honestly stay on the other side of the valley of the Huang River, and the armies of the two sides are separated by more than 30 miles, facing each other from afar.

He doesn't have the ability to destroy the Khitan now, and if this battle continues, there will be no benefit at all.

Under the current situation, there is no stability in the country, and it is impossible for him to deal with the Khitan with all his strength with the strength of the whole country, otherwise, as long as there is some chaos, he will not even have the strength to calm down.

As a qualified politician, you must not be greedy, you must know how to stop in moderation, and grasp the proportion.

Yelu Deguang didn't want to fight, the problem was that in this case, he couldn't pull off this face if he had peace talks with Tang Guo.

So the two sides have been separated by the valley of the Huang River.

As the temperature gradually rose, Li Qi ordered tens of thousands of grassland prisoners of war to be held, and began to build cities along the mountain passes of the Huang River and Luan River, first blocking the Khitan and Xi people, so that they could not easily break into the grassland on the dam.

After a month of confrontation between the two sides, Li Qi first sent an envoy to the Khitan camp to test Yelu Deguang's attitude. As for the grassland land on the dam that he has obtained so far, Li Qi will never spit it out again, but the captured Khitan tribesmen, if the other party is willing to pay for ransom, there is still a discussion.

When Li Qi contained Yelu Deguang's Khitan main force in the Huanghe, the Tang army was not idle in the south.

Yuan Xingqin, Xia Luqi and Pei Yue gathered more than 100,000 troops and began to besiege Youzhou with all their might.

At the beginning of February, Liu Zhiyuan, the defender of Zhuozhou, surrendered the city, and Zhao Dejun abandoned Wuqing and led the army to flee to Pingzhou and take refuge in the Khitan. Now only Shi Jingjiao is left to defend the lonely city of Youzhou, surrounded by the Northern Army in Youzhou City. In mid-March, Shi Jingjiao led his army to break through the encirclement of the Northern Army, abandoned the city and fled, and threw himself into the Khitan.

At this point, the Northern Army regained Youzhou, an important town in Hebei.

In April, Li Qi and Yelu Deguang reached a peace agreement, and the two sides were bounded by Songshan (Daxinganling) and Songdesert in the north, and Youzhou was bounded by Jishui.

It wasn't until the peace agreement was reached that Li Qi was a teacher of Jinyang.

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